"Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same."

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Source : Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.112

Oliver Goldsmith

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“When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.”
“Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.”
“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”
“Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.”
“There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.”
“As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.”
“The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always hasâ€”from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.”
“It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.”

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